Auster

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe for edits? Transparent backgrounds allow putting the image on top of another without completely covering it, e.g. the image attached.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

About the edit at the bottom, unsure what you tried, but on Lemmy instances when creating posts, I'd presume you'd need to add the link in the URL field, and the image in the Image field.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 4 days ago

Unsure how popular it is in Norway - I'm in another continent and yet to visit there so can't verify easily.

But about what you'd be missing, from the little I could gather, maybe half the main series, and all the Christimas comics which apparently still release yearly to this day.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 7 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Finding the original ~~translation~~ version* is pretty hard. Been looking for over a year now, but I fear it'd be easier to book a flight to Oslo or Bergen and look at book shops there.

(*put "translation" by brain fart)

 

Alt textPervis: THIS WEBPAGE IS TAKING FOREVER TO LOAD! Pervis clicks refresh button the same instant the page loads CLICK Pervis's spirit departs the body

Source (Bluesky)

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Found a few candidate tools though can test neither now, mutool (part of the mupdf tools), PDFtk, qpdf, pdf2txt (name sounds familiar though it might be memory playing tricks).

If any of those could be found as a single portable exe around 2020, chances are it is the tool I used for it.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Iirc, tested it out quite a few years ago, and I had to use a software that would both decompile and recompile the PDF, and while it was decompiled, I had to remove the repeating pattern I didn't want with something like Notepad++. File got recompiled a bit over 50% bigger iirc, maybe different compression methods, but the pages themselves didn't seem affected.

Sadly can't remember the name of the program I used for compiling and recompiling, only that it'd do both and that I looked for how to remove watermarks from PDFs. Also the program was certainly offline.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 week ago

That's something that's been bothering me on the microblogging side of Mbin too, how replies to posts are presented. There, all replies appear on the feed, and they're also on a parallel code block to the post, so even browser scripts or filters have trouble picking them.

Your comment gives me some ideas, so will be poking on the Mbin issues tracker later. Thanks! ^_^

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mind sharing a link to the tool? Checked the post on the original url and it doesn't seem to be there either so guessing it was forgotten.

 

Accidentally found earlier today you can follow communities/magazines as "group"-tagged users in Mastodon, e.g. https://mastodon.social/@fediverse@lemmy.world

The problem is that posts in the community appear as boosts on Mastodon, and even replies are treated as posts. So if you follow a community with high engagement there, your feed easily gets flooded by replies people make to a given post.

Hope that helps ^_^

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

Old post, but in case it's useful in the future, also a third option is to follow someone whose instance has communities and boosts at the same time, and follow him/her. Whenever the post is boosted, it gets propagated to the Mastodon instance of the follower.

Mbin does this, PieFed early on said they wanted to implement a similar hybrid system as Kbin/Mbin but dunno how it's going, and with how overarching Misskey seems to be for text/image posts, I wouldn't be surprised if one there could follow communities too.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

On the sorting logic, not the code itself, maybe calculate differently for each range of total votes?

For example, let's say there are 5 communities with up to 100 total votes, 5 with 1000 and 5 with 10000. You could, for the first, divide the percentage by some constant like let's say 10, the middle one you'd do nothing, and the third one you'd multiply the percentage by the same constant as the first. The resulting number (no longer a percentage) could indicate the engagement.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Microsoft talking about cybersecurity feels like a demon talking about doing charity.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 week ago

Some times it isn't about the destination, but about the journey itself.

 

GOG version installed directly

Other than a boss flying off mid-fight and the sprint and clawline buttons working only with workarounds, guess it's working fine so far? e.e"

 

Fish is fine, just a little bruised (it'll be fine)

On the nick of time! Was pretty busy so just doodled whatever came to mind. Also depth perception the bane of my drawings.

 

Fish is fine, just a little bruised (it'll be fine)

On the nick of time! Was pretty busy so just doodled whatever came to mind. Also depth perception the bane of my drawings.

 

Haven't drawn in a while and I don't remember having drawn a comic-type drawing before. Came decent, me thinks. =D

Made on Krita with a Gaomon S620.

 

Found recently a feed for police reports from a Norwegian county, @politietiagderlogg@activitypub.stigatle.no

I personally don't have any opinions on that county, so news on it would be by default useless to me. But as they're pretty straight to the point, short, and on a rather narrowed down subject, it's being pretty helpful for studying vocabulary, something that at least for me is the hardest part in language learning.

Introduction given, would anyone have any recommendations on Japanese, Korean and/or German feeds that follow that general idea? Not necessarily on the fediverse, though if not, at least in a way I can easily follow, such as through RSS. And while I gave a police report log as example, subject doesn't need to be the same.

Thanks in advance!

 

Alt text:

i just want to look out the window and mutter "nice weather for snakes", is that too much to ask

Source (author's blog)

 

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mistakes were made... or WERE they

sauce (author's site)

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